antepenultimate

English

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← 2	3	4 →
Cardinal: three Ordinal: third Latinate ordinal: tertiary Reverse order ordinal: third to last, third from last, last but two Latinate reverse order ordinal: antepenultimate Adverbial: three times, thrice Multiplier: threefold Latinate multiplier: triple Distributive: triply Germanic collective: trio, threesome Collective of n parts: triplet Greek or Latinate collective: triad Greek collective prefix: tri- Latinate collective prefix: tri- Fractional: third Elemental: triplet Greek prefix: trito- Number of musicians: trio, triplet Number of years: triennium

From ante- +‎ penultimate, modelled on^[1] Latin antepaenultima/antepēnultima (syllaba) (“last syllable but two in a word”), from the feminine of antepaenultimus/antepēnultimus (“antepenultimate”).^[2]

antepenultimate (not comparable)

Two before the last, i.e., the one immediately before the penultimate, in a series.
This book has ten chapters — chapter 8 is the antepenultimate one.
- 1677, Robert Plot, “Of the Heavens and Air”, in The natural history of Oxford-shire: Being an Essay Toward the Natural History of England‎^[2], page 15:
  […] they [the sounds of an echo] next strike the ultimate secondary object, then the penultimate and antepenultimate; […]

(adjectives denoting syllables): ultimate (last), penultimate (last but one), preantepenultimate (last but three), propreantepenultimate (last but four)

two before the last

antepenultimate (plural antepenultimates)

The third before the last in a series. e.g. (..., antepenultimate, penultimate, ultimate)
The syllable that comes two before the last in a word.
Synonym: antepenult

The words animal, citizen, comedy, dangerous, obvious, and antepenultimate are stressed on the antepenultimate.

the syllable 3nd from last

definition — see target